How to cut onions? Quick method

Sometimes one of the simplest tasks takes a lot of our time in kitchen. Cutting onions is one such everyday task. We use onions for most of our dishes. Many of you will agree if I say : We don't learn to chop it right, but we just learn to chop and we continue using the same method for many years. I have also watched a competition on TV, where cutting onions was given as a task. Challenge on this task was to slice and chop onions where every piece would be of the same size .

Cooking skills start with learning to chop onions. We have to cut onions fast. As the saying goes "Practice makes man perfect", so does cutting onions which needs a lot of practice. With practice comes speed and perfection. Do not forget to have a sharp knife while cutting onions.

In the above video we have used "Santoku" knife. This knife is very good for the 3 cutting tasks of slicing, mincing and dicing.

The above video is by my husband and its his preferred method of chopping onions. If you can practice third method in above video, I'm sure you'll save a lot of time while chopping onions finely. But, make sure you take care and be safe while cutting.

Listed down are a detailed explanation of 3 methods of cutting onions.

Method 1: Slicing

Peel all dried papery layers of the onion. Usually its 1-3 layers.

Chop off head and tail of onion.

Place onion with chopped head side facing down.

Cut onion vertically into 2 halves.

Take one half and place flat side down.

Slice it vertically by moving your fingers as you slice.

Method 2 : Chopping (Slow method)

Peel all dried papery layers of the onion. Usually its 1-3 layers.

Chop off head and tail of onion.

Place onion with chopped head side facing down and cut into half vertically.

Hold head side with your fingers and make vertical slits up to root.

Rotate onion and cut vertically up to root.

Method 3 : Chopping (Preferred fast method)

Peel all dried papery layers of the onion. Usually its 1-3 layers.

Chop off head and tail of onion.

Place onion with chopped head side facing down.

Give orthogonal cuts from top till about half inch above root.

Rotate onion with tail facing the knife.

Chop finely till root.

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